Date   : Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:52:20 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Domesday Preservation

Darren Grant wrote:
> What we are asking for here is for the copyright to be overturned so that
> the material is in the public domain or at least making it crown copyright.
 
When I last looked at it I wasn't looking at anything as drastic as
putting the lot in the Public Domain. Just legislatively
reassigning all copyright to a stated copyright holder with defined
fair use allowances that allows the content to be reused,
effectively legislatively implimenting the explicit assignment on
the form at the back of the teachers' manual that turned up at the
show.
 
The strengths are that the project was explicitly set up in order
to gather a snapshot of information for the use of future
generations. There's noting in that statement to say that that use
should be free, or that it should be public domain. "Use" can have
any sort of appropriate conditions attached to it.
 
At the moment, the only people who can confidantly reuse recovered
data are people who are actually in possession of orginal physical
media, using the recovery and preservation of a work fair use
clause.
 
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J.G.Harston - jgh@...                - mdfs.net/User/JGH
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